Yaşar is a masculine Turkish given name, which also appears as a surname that means immortal.[1] In non-Turkish publications, the name would many times appear as Yasar (with no cedilla on the s).
People with the name include:
Given name
Yaşar
- Yaşar Aliyev (born 1955), Azerbaijani diplomat
- Yaşar Altıntaş (born 1957), Turkish footballer
- Yaşar Alpaslan (1914–1995), Turkish footballer
- Yaşar Turgut Bilgin (born 1957), Turkish author
- Yaşar Büyükanıt (1940–2019), Turkish general, Chief of the Turkish General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces
- Yaşar Halit Çevik (born 1955), Turkish ambassador
- Yaşar Doğu (1913–1961), Turkish sports wrestler
- Yaşar Erkan (1911–1986), Turkish sports wrestler
- Yaşar Giritli (born 1969), Turkish boxer
- Yaşar Güler (born 1954), Turkish general
- Yasar İsmailoğlu (born 1945), Turkish-Cypriot poet, writer and journalist
- Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015), Turkish writer and journalist of Kurdish origin
- Yaşar Kurt (born 1968), Turkish musician of Armenian origin
- Yaşar Nezihe (1882-1971), Ottoman Turkish poet
- Yaşar Okuyan (1950–2023), Turkish politician
- Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (1951–2016), Turkish politician
- Yaşar Ören (born 1942), Turkish cross-country skier
- Yaşar Topçu (born 1941), Turkish politician and government minister
- Yaşar Yakış (born 1938), Turkish politician and government minister
- Yaşar Yılmaz (born 1930), Turkish sports wrestler
Yasar
- Yasar Onel, Turkish-born Swiss and American physicist
Middle name
- Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984), Turkish poet
Surname
Yaşar
- Ebru Yaşar (born 1978), Turkish female musician
- Ece Yaşar (born 1990), Turkish female karateka
- İbrahim Halil Yaşar (born 1994), Turkish footballer
- Muhsin Yaşar, Turkish basketball player
- Necdet Yaşar (1930–2017), Turkish tanbur (lute) player and teacher
- Osman Yaşar, American computer scientist
- Nurettin Yaşar (born 1961), Turkish politician and member of Parliament
- Selim Yaşar (born 1990), Ingushetia-born Russian and Turkish wrestler
Yasar
- Nedim Yasar (1987–2018), Danish former gangster and radio host of Turkish origin
- Özgür Yasar (born 1981), Swedish footballer
See also
References
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